Mamdani's plan to cut gifted programs in NYC schools driving parents to competitive private education: report
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to cut gifted programs in New York City schools has reportedly driven wealthy parents to enroll their kids in already highly competitive private schools.
Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"Parents have complained for decades that getting into an elite independent school in Manhattan is harder than getting into Harvard; for the wealthy parents who are competing to spend about $70,000 a year, it’s an infamously complicated and time-intensive game of tutoring and networking that involves preschoolers sitting for assessments and ‘interviews’ just before nap time," the magazine reported. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
This gave rise to Facebook groups being formed, like "Moms of the Upper Eastside" and "UES Mommas," where NYC parents vented about their children getting wait-listed and rejected at the school they believed their children would enroll in. One parent wrote, "It’s a bloodbath this year." Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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